LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Top Stories: A union plans to protest next Pirates' game; UPS & Teamsters open talks; RISD and striking Teamsters reach TA; Why unions push minimum-wage increases & 41 more articles...
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Union plans to picket Pirates’ next home game
While there will be strikes inside PNC Park on Thursday during the Pirates next home game, there could also be striking workers outside on a picket line. Read more…
UPS, Teamsters open high-stakes US labor talks
United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union on Monday started U.S. private sector labor contract talks covering roughly 340,000 U.S. drivers, package handlers and loaders at the global delivery firm. Read more…
Rhode Island School of Design, striking Teamsters reach tentative agreement
The Rhode Island School of Design and the Teamsters Local 251 union representing the school’s 62 custodians, groundskeepers and movers reached a tentative agreement on a six-year contract Monday afternoon… Read more…
Why Unions Push Minimum-Wage Increases
At first glance, it makes little sense that labor unions would support minimum-wage increases. Union members don’t get paid the minimum wage, and if nonunion workers saw pay increases as a result of a minimum-wage increase, they would have less reason to unionize because the law would have raised their wages already. Read more…
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
Union, ahoy: Alcatraz ferry workers rally over stalled contract
Strike ahead? What to watch as UPS and Teamsters negotiations unfold
Teamsters Tell UPS: Make Movement on Our Members’ Issues Now
ECONOMIC NEWS
Two-Year Anniversary Of Declining Real Wages For American Workers
Fed’s Bostic sees one more quarter-point rate hike, then a hold ‘for quite some time’
Whitehouse announced new legislation to protect the solvency of Social Security and Medicare
Many Older Americans Haven’t Saved Anything for Retirement (paywall)
EDUCATION UNION NEWS
Youngstown teachers allege school board stalling and delaying contract negotiations
Judge says UM grad workers union committed ULP; union to appeal
Indiana House votes to cut mandatory discussion topics, teachers call it union busting
Buffalo Public School teachers have been without a new union contract for 3 years
GENERAL UNION NEWS
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Don’t Expect to Charge Your Electric Vehicle at the Stations USPS Plans to Build
Some Officers Are Still Tracking Security Clearance Holders the Old-Fashioned Way: With Paper
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
HR NEWS
Burger chain Slutty Vegan and its affiliate, Bar Vegan, face wage and hour lawsuits
Society For Human Resources (SHRM) Leader Brags about Outsourcing
LABOR DISPUTES
Area union representing workers at Wildcat Materials announces strike
Memphis sanitation employees continue strikes following worker’s death
Immigrant workers are leading the longest strike in the U.S.
LEGAL NEWS
Supreme Court sides with New Jersey in dispute with New York over Waterfront Commission
Supreme Court weighs how far employers must go to accommodate workers’ religious practices
ORGANIZING NEWS
Trader Joe’s associates in California, New York set to vote on unionizing
NBCUniversal Told Managers to Fight Unions in Role-Playing Exercise
Wells Fargo privately worries union ‘resurgence’ could reach its workers next
American Airlines Pilots Union Moves Towards Possibly Joining ALPA
POLITICAL NEWS
Hispanic Republicans warn border proposal isn’t ready for ‘prime time’
Biden to sign executive order expanding access to dependent care aid as he gears up for 2024 bid
STARBUCKS UNION NEWS
Greektown Starbucks workers to go on strike, accuse chain of union-busting
Downtown Sacramento Starbucks is the 300th store in the nation to unionize
